Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about.

Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow.

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .

Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.

You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.

If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.

If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you.

Don't spend so much time chasing your future that you run over your present.

Don’t hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.

From the moment I could even understand what “respect” was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.

Only grace makes it possible to do the good we must do.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

I like something with 'vice' in it.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

I think a big part of being a success is confidence. Just look at me, I know I'm successful, and I am.